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Dynamic solutions for a fluid world™

AFT Impulse 8 ™

Waterhammer & Surge Analysis Software

Design and Operate Your System


with Greater Safety and Reliability
AFT Impulse is a powerful fluid dynamic simulation
tool used to calculate pressure transients in piping
systems caused by waterhammer. Designed for use in
liquid systems containing water, petroleum and refined
products, chemical products, cryogens, refrigerants, and
more, AFT Impulse is an essential tool with the ability to
tackle your most demanding systems.

Capabilities Benefits Applications


• Experiment with operating conditions and scenarios • Understand the transient • Ensure pressure
• Easily change system input data including transient valve response of your system extremes are within
positions, pump operation, control set points, pressures, • Avoid damaging effects design allowables
temperatures and more of waterhammer and • Size and locate surge
• Model a wide range of system components from handbook other undesirable system suppression equipment
empirical sources or input manufacturer data transients • Determine imbalanced
• Initiate transients based on time or events in the system • Alleviate issues associated pipe forces for sizing
• Reduce surge magnitudes by adjusting system component with inadequate system structural supports
transients such as valve closures or pump speed designs or operational • Troubleshoot existing
• Calculate transient unbalanced forces and define force sets procedures systems to determine
as location pairs or single points • Validate the design of the cause of operational
• Specify alerts that automatically highlight output values safety features problems
that are out of range for flow, pressure, velocity, pump best • Visualize the dynamic • Evaluate the effect of
efficiency point and more
interaction of valves, pressure surges due to
• Prevent transient pressure issues by properly sizing pumps and other vapor cavity collapse
and locating surge equipment, such as surge tanks, gas components
accumulators, and relief valves
• Evaluate codes and industry standards applied in the
model
• Compile database libraries of your frequently used piping
components and select them from a drop down list

Add-On Modules

Settling Slurry Pulsation Frequency Analysis

The only commercial software solution that Helps identify and avoid resonant
can model both non-settling and settling frequencies in systems, especially in those
slurry waterhammer effects. caused by positive displacement pumps.

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Features
• Built-in steady-state solver to automatically initialize
waterhammer transient
• Compound transient event logic to model complex
control sequences
• Detailed pump inertial modeling for trips and startups
using one quadrant or four quadrant methods
• Extensive cavitation modeling including liquid column
separation
• Scenario Manager to track all design variants and
operational possibilities in a single model file
• Comprehensive modeling of relief valves, surge tanks,
and gas accumulators
• Integrated graphing and reporting
• Animation tools for visual interpretation of complex
transient interactions
• Generates force imbalance files that can be
automatically read into CAESAR II ®, ROHR2, AutoPIPE
and TRIFLEX ® pipe stress dynamic models
• Built-in libraries of fluids (including NIST REFPROP and
ASME Steam Tables) and fittings which can be extended
and customized

Data Integration
• Import piping layouts and dimensional data from
GIS Shapefiles, CAESAR II® Neutral Files, and PCF
files from a wide range of sources
• Import and export files in EPANET format How does it work?
AFT Impulse incorporates a steady-state solver providing
• Robust Excel integration to import and export data
seamless transfer of initial conditions to the transient
analysis. Steady-state solutions are determined using
Newton-Raphson matrix iteration. The traditional
“AFT Impulse”, “Applied Flow Technology”, “Dynamic solutions for a fluid world” and the
AFT logo are trademarks of Applied Flow Technology Corporation. CAESAR II, and ROHR2 Method of Characteristics is used to solve the transient
are third-party products owned and trademarked by their individual corporations.
mass and momentum equations of pipe flow.

World Class Support


Your software includes one free year of product upgrades and technical support.
Additionally, AFT offers a variety of training for all levels of knowledge.

Training Seminars Free Webinars Expert Assistance Tips & Tricks


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